Nash Riggins is an American freelance journalist based in central Scotland. He currently writes for The Huffington Post, World Finance and Ones to Watch. For more from Nash, follow his blog at: www.nashriggins.com.

Entries by Nash Riggins

Hot off the heels of an eye-opening independence referendum, Scotland's new First Minister has more bargaining chips than she knows what to do with. Her party numbers have swelled beyond belief, her government is being given more powers than ever before and there's a...

Higher education is one of the most lucrative exports Britain has got. Not only is it worth about £70billion to the economy, but the country's top universities play a crucial role in consolidating Britain's withering reputation as a global superpower. With that in mind, any move to stifle industrial investment...

When David Cameron moved into Downing Street in 2010, he did so based on a platform of change. He lambasted the previous Labour government for doing little to tackle health inequality, pledged to lessen the country's poverty divide and promised to create a fairer welfare system.

Britain's renewable energy sector bears every trait you'd expect to see from a thriving, economically-driven international industry. It employs over 100,000 people, has been instrumental in helping domestic construction firms prosper during recession and has allowed families across the country to soften the blow of increasingly unaffordable household energy bills...

Ever since Britain's housing bubble went splat in 2008, the coalition has been making a lot of noise about fixing this country's severe lack of affordable housing. In fact, you could almost say it's become a sort of crusade for the PM and his little-known housing minister.

When David Cameron rose to power in 2010, he vowed to pilot the UK's "greenest government ever". He condemned the lackluster environmental credentials of the Labour regime that preceded him, arguing its leaders had callously showed little regard for Britain's sustainable impact on Mother Earth. Then, in a...

The Co-op is in trouble again. Just months after its financial arm all but collapsed, the company has been forced to admit it's completely haemorrhaging cash. And facing some £2bn in losses, it only makes sense Co-op bosses have decided it's time to go into shutdown mode.

Ever since the coalition came to power in 2010, they've carried out reform after reform under the sanctimonious presumption that we've got to 'trim the fat' off of Britain's social safety net. Yet by allowing that to happen, we've afforded politicians a golden opportunity to diminish the bulk of income...

George Osborne has finally decided to throw his cards on the table. An independent Scotland will not be allowed to retain the pound via some bureaucratic currency share scheme, he claims - a view that's reportedly shared across the political spectrum down south. As usual, this has gotten...

Britain is on the brink of a disaster. The prices of food and fuel have been allowed to spiral out of control. Meanwhile, affordable accommodation is quickly dissipating - egged on by the coalition's dubious desire to slash cost-cutting holes in Britain's social safety net.

Ever since dream team George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith decided to launch their counter-intuitive campaign against Britain's sterling social security system, the public has tolerated their fodder based upon the delusional presumption that the government 'sort of' knew what it was doing.

Britain's National Health Service was built upon the firmly held conviction that good healthcare should be available to everyone in society - that it should be based on clinical need rather than one's ability to pay hefty sums of money upfront. Well, apparently that's no longer the case.

In last week's autumn statement, Chancellor George Osborne was able to showboat the supposed successes of his austerity-driven financial agenda and renew his increasingly unlikely commitment towards balancing Britain's topsy-turvy budget. Yet while he's busy fritting away government assets and liabilities at break-neck speed, Mr Osborne appears keen to ignore...

The Student Loans Company has always been an enigmatic public burden - a costly but necessary evil that allows Britain to foster young talent and train the leaders of tomorrow. In turn, these government-funded loans go on to perpetuate a forward-thinking attitude that willingly takes on the risk of investing...

If there's anything worse than watching an out-of-touch politician squirm his or her way into a debate on sex, it's watching an entire gaggle of politicians squirm their way into a debate on our children having sex. Well, it's turning out to be that kind of week.

Like any power couple, David Cameron and George Osborne are incredibly busy - and consequently, they don't have time to make new mistakes. Instead, they'd rather repackage the regurgitated innards of old policies the global economy has already chewed up and spit out. So enters the coalition's coveted 'Help to...

Here in Britain, the future is looking pretty bleak for higher education. According to the latest global rankings released by the Times Higher Education group, nearly all of the UK's top universities have continued to free-fall down their list of the world's best. Bearing in mind that higher...

It seems the world police have called Syria's bluff. CIA-trained operatives have been deployed on the ground to help bolster the country's rebel forces, and Barack Obama is now within inches of attaining what David Cameron so embarrassingly failed to achieve in Britain: Congressional approval to fire a few hundred...